US Senate Democrats urge Israel to rein in West Bank violence

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rein in a "surge" of violence by West Bank settlers and mass arrests of Palestinians by Israeli security forcesin the occupied territory. Inthe letter to Netanyahu, seen by Reuters and signed by 42 of the Senate's 47-member Democratic caucus, the lawmakers noted increasing levels of "fatal violence by settlers."